Self Quotes

The goal of art was the vital expression of self.

~ Alfred Stieglitz

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Allowing a friend to careen toward self destruction is not friendship. That is a habit the United States needs to break as it pursues a richer and more deeply supportive relationship with Israel.

~ Stephen Kinzer

You play to different parts of yourself when you take on various roles. Like, you are your confident self when you're playing this person, and you're your sad self when playing another person - but it's all a part of you somewhere.

~ Riley Keough

As others have recently suggested, the term 'gamer' is no longer useful as an identity because games are for everyone. These days, even my mom spends an inordinate amount of time gaming on her iPad. So I'll take a cue from my younger self and say I don't care about being a 'gamer,' but I sure do love video games.

~ Anita Sarkeesian

I was watching 'Mr. Roger's Neighborhood', 'Sesame Street', 'Electric Company', 'Romper Room', and 'Villa Alegre!' when I said to my self, 'Hey, self! Wouldn't it be fun to be one of those kids on the TV?' My mom thought it was a pretty good idea, too... and she instantly moved us from the Bay Area to Malibu... nice.

~ Keith Coogan

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.

~ Minna Antrim

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

~ Ella Maillart

Well, you can say there is a self driving car. I'm seeing the automation of vehicles. Really, computer-assisted driving. I think that is really interesting to us because we are taking all of the sensors technologies and putting them in cars and making people safer.

~ Tony Fadell

Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it.

~ Alanis Morissette

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

~ Bertrand Russell

Loving oneself isn't hard, when you understand who and what 'yourself' is. It has nothing to do with the shape of your face, the size of your eyes, the length of your hair or the quality of your clothes. It's so beyond all of those things and it's what gives life to everything about you. Your own self is such a treasure.

~ Phylicia Rashad

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

~ Wayne Dyer

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

If I can be my crazy, wild self in front of a person, and he still likes me, that's romantic.

~ Preity Zinta

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

~ Ann Oakley

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

~ Ralph Marston

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.

~ Seamus Heaney

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Anger can be a useful emotion; it's built into our genetic code to help with self preservation. But it can also be destructive, even when it is justified.

~ Michael Hayden

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

~ Maxwell Maltz

All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.

~ Diane Ackerman

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.

~ Denis Waitley

Autoimmunity is probably the next frontier. The majority of cases of autoimmune disease result from a complex genetic problem that has environmental influences. It is a colossal task for the immune system to maintain tolerance to self and yet be ready to react to everything in the world around us.

~ Bruce Beutler

A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.

~ Susan Cain

In our society, the ideal self is bold, gregarious, and comfortable in the spotlight. We like to think that we value individuality, but mostly we admire the type of individual who's comfortable 'putting himself out there.'

~ Susan Cain

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

~ Lionel Trilling

Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.

~ Bede Griffiths

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

~ Michel De Montaigne